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...still have to see if they meet other requirements to be adoptive parents, but they are proud of their victory over bureaucratic rules they consider unfeeling and discriminatory. "I'm happy we could do some good for other so-called fat people," says Gordon, who never lost a pound...
...rookie from Long Island has posted a perfect 7-0 mark this year in the 118-pound class. Sophomore Rick Kief also started on a winning streak grabbing three wins in the quadrangular marathon...
...acres in Guajira. Perhaps 50,000 more acres are cultivated in the southern plains. "I was shocked," he said. "No one thought the problem could be of such dimensions." At a maximum yield, such fields have a potential of producing annually 6 billion lbs. of marijuana, each pound worth $600 on American streets...
...carried on mother ships and lumbering old planes, but since it is so much more compact than marijuana, and worth almost six times its weight in gold, there are simpler methods of shipment. A commercial air traveler flying from Bogota can make $10,000 tax free by carrying a pound about the size of a paperback book. Many passengers do. They carry the white powder on their bodies, inside candy bars or toothpaste tubes, under slightly askew wigs, sewn into leather saddles...
...bankrupt Cleveland. Most useful present: a leather-covered toolbox, complete with screwdrivers and toenail clippers, given to buxom, blond-wigged Country Singer Dolly Parton, who says her new toolbox is "very feminine looking" and filled with "things I can use on the road." Most jovially received present: a pound of bacon, presented by reporters to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance before they all landed at Andrews Air Force Base last week. Said the correspondent chosen to hand over the pork, forbidden to both Jews and Muslims: "This gift contains no salt and has been rejected by both parties...